Impact of Medical and Surgical Treatment of Endometriosis on the Cure of Endometriosis and Pain

Table 2

Comparison of recurrence rates for the three therapy methods before and after one year.

Therapy methods	Recurrent symptoms (in %)/CI
	Dysmenorrhea		Dyspareunia		Abdominal pain
	Before ( = 0.613)	After ( = 0.053)	Before ( = 0.0593)	After ( = 0.007)	Before ( = 0.0540)	After ( = 0.284)
Group 1, hormonal ()	75 (60%)/50.9–68.7	35 (28%)/20.3–36.7	70 (56%)/46.8–64.9	28 (22%)/15.4–30.7	60 (48%)/40.0–57.1	33 (26%)/18.9–35.0
Group 2, surgical ( = 137)	78 (57%)/48.2–65.4	27 (20%)/13.4–27.3	69 (50%)/41.7–59.0	21 (15%)/9.7–22.5	58 (42%)/33.9–51.1	33 (24%)/17.2–32.1
Group 3, combined ( = 148)	80 (54%)/45.7–62.3	24 (16%)/10.7–23.2	75 (51%)/42.3–59.0	12 (8%)/4.2–13.7	62 (42%)/33.8–50.3	25 (17%)/11.2–23.9

CI: confidence interval.